Good morning! Today is Tell a Fairy Tale Day, but we’ll stick to nonfiction in this morning’s reads…

Stat of the day: 43 percent — the dramatic decline in the obesity rate of young children over the past decade.

How the 1 percent cheat –> Credit Suisse used “cloak-and-dagger schemes that belong in a spy novel” to help thousands of Americans avoid paying taxes on billions of dollars, according to Sens. Carl Levin and John McCain. Dominic Rushe reports for The Guardian.

Youth indoctrination –> Salon’s Josh Eidelson has quite a story about a Wal-Mart-backed campus “leadership group” that one professor claims to be marked by a “cultlike character, institutional corruption and corporate conservative ideology.”

Disinvited –> Organizers of the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference changed their minds and decided not to allow an atheist group to have a table, according to Dan Merica at CNN.

A matter of perception –> With six very wealthy Republican businessmen vying for Senate seats, The Hill’s Cameron Joseph says much will ride on whether voters see them as successful problem-solvers who know about creating jobs or out-of-touch rich guys trying to buy power.

Reefer madness –> A Maryland police chief testifying against a proposal to de-criminalize marijuana cited a satirical website’s hoax story about 37 people dying of marijuana overdoses on the first day of legal weed sales in Colorado. HuffPo’s Hunter Stuart with the story.

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